Pope Pius V
16th‑century Italian pope and Catholic saint, leading Counter‑Reformation reformer
- Fame67.2
- Momentum13.5
- Religious Figures rank#38
- Fame67.2
- Momentum13.5
- Religious Figures rank#38
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ItalyThe Counter-Reformation pope who excommunicated Elizabeth I, shaped Catholic liturgy for four centuries, and claimed to feel the Christian victory at Lepanto from a thousand miles away.
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Born Antonio Ghislieri in 1504, he became an inquisitor with a reputation for putting orthodoxy above everything—prosecuting bishops for heresy, blocking nepotism so fiercely he rebuked a sitting pope to his face. Elected in 1566, he spent six years implementing the Council of Trent's reforms and standardizing the Roman Rite into what became the Tridentine mass. In 1570 he excommunicated Elizabeth I for heresy. The next year he brokered the Holy League, the Catholic alliance that met the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto and won against the odds. Biographers say that as the battle ended, Pius rose from…
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